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February 2010

Presentation sharing site SlideShare today adds a new Channels service to its professional content sharing arsenal, allowing businesses and brands to create custom microsites within the community. With Channels, companies can create a branded channel...

Go to urbandictionary.com, type in your first name, copy and paste this as your Facebook status, and put the first entry for your name under comments. OK, you don't really have to do it, but if you don't, you'll be missing out on the latest Facebook ...

Today Google is kicking off its third installment of Doodle for Google, a yearly nationwide art contest for students in grades K-12. Eligible students can submit their own "Google Doodles," and the winning Doodle will appear on Google's homepage for ...

A report by Manpower employer services found that only 29% of companies in the Americas have a "formal policy regarding employee use of social networking sites." The number is lower in other regions — 25% in Asia-Pacific and 11% EMEA. The worldwide n...

Skype has just gone on the record confirming that a version of Skype for iPhone that supports calls over 3G is coming "real soon now." Skype for iPhone currently supports calls over Wi-Fi, which severely limits how useful the Skype application can be...

If you're seeking a job in social media, we'd like to help out. For starters, Mashable's Job Lists section gathers together all our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on ...

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UK mob boss Colin Gunn has been playing a very real game of Mafia Wars from his jail cell in a maximum-security prison. According to Times Online, Gunn was incarcerated after he ordered executions during his tenure as a mob boss in a criminal empire ...

This post is part of Mashable's Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Na...

Textbook publishers have already enlisted the third-party services of developers to build adaptations of textbooks for the iPad, the Wall Street Journal reports. McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin, Pearson and Kaplan have struck deals with iPhone and iPod...

Famed producer and soon-to-be-former American Idol judge Simon Cowell brought together 21 noted musical artists to record a rendition of R.E.M.'s "Everybody Hurts." Both it and a benefit cover "We Are the World" with 80 artists are making a big splas...

Amybeth Hale is a Talent Attraction Manager with AT&T’s Interactive Staffing team. She uses social technology to help drive awareness of job opportunities as well as interact with candidates. Connect with her on Twitter at @researchgoddess. Want to k...

Well before the end of 2009, it was clear that geolocation would be one of the biggest web trends in 2010. From social services like Foursquare to location-specific trends in Twitter, location is one of the hottest new features for users, businesses ...

Monster, best known for its online employment website, has just announced that it has acquired Yahoo HotJobs from the Internet giant for $225 million in cash. Yahoo and Monster have also entered a 3 year traffic deal as part of the acquisition. Yahoo...

An alleged insider told The New York Times today that Amazon has just bought a startup specializing in touchscreens, and that Amazon will merge the company and its technology into its own Kindle division. If this little rumor turns out to be true, th...

Today, Stanford University threw its hat into the ring for Google by expanding an earlier agreement with the search giant and agreeing to digitize the University's library. The move comes amidst legal controversy over the Google Book Search engine. A...

On Monday, February 1, 2010, Walmart put into effect a DVD purchase cap on new releases, limiting customers to no more than five DVD new release purchases at a time. It's a decision that could make it impossible for Redbox -- the enemy of the enterta...

Politicians in Mexico are reportedly drafting a bill to regulate Twitter and other social networks to curb crime in the country, according to Seattle PI. Just like we've seen here in the States, citizens in Mexico are apparently using Twitter to evad...

A new study published today by Pew Internet finds that teens and young adults are blogging less and using social networking sites more, with the prominent exception of Twitter. Pew's Report surveyed 2,253 American adults and 800 U.S. teens to get a r...

SAP's newly released beta product 12Sprints -- a free cutting edge collaborative decision-making tool -- adds much needed structure to the idea of real-time collaboration, made popular by Google Wave, and improves upon the functionality of popular we...

Twitter mobile users and developers, rejoice: The microblogging company has finally fixed mobile OAuth. In an announcement earlier today, Twitter's Director of Platform Ryan Sarver revealed that the team has finally fixed the rendering issue that mad...

Twitter has just introduced a new feature for its users: Hovercards, a new way to access profile information without actually visiting someone's profile. In an announcement, Twitter Spokesperson Jenna Sampson discussed how the new feature works: "Hov...

We've seen quite a bit of resignation notes in the IT world over the years, but this one takes the cake when it comes to originality. Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems, has tweeted his resignation, explaining it with a haiku poem: "Today's m...

As of today, the source code of Symbian 3 mobile OS (the successor of previous Symbian versions, S60, S40 and others) is open and free to use. Nokia had acquired Symbian back in 2008, turned the consortium that makes the software into the Symbian fou...

According to Wikipedia and its Info page, Facebook was launched exactly six years ago, on February 4, 2004. Back then it was called "Thefacebook," and it was originally located at thefacebook.com, but it's definitely the same project. Founded by Mark...

Recently, we wrote that AT&T is planning to spend an additional 2 billion dollars in 2010 on improving its wireless network. Now, it's showing that it wasn't kidding, at least about its intentions, as it's finally let SlingPlayer, a mobile app that l...

Back in November, Apple quietly rolled out iTunes Preview, which created a web-based page for iTunes albums and song tracks. Earlier this year, the company added song samples to iTunes Preview, further fueling speculation of a web-based iTunes client...

The online streaming version of Sirius XM satellite radio is now available on many of the newer BlackBerry smartphones. Sirius XM just announced that a free app is up for download at its website, though the service isn't free. Sirius XM is trying to ...

Vanity Fair is asking for your 2010 Oscars predictions via a free iPhone app available in the App Store as of yesterday. The app is called Vanity Fair Hollywood, and you can use it to read Vanity Fair's Hollywood coverage leading up to the Oscars in ...

Super Bowl Sunday is just a few days away and advertisers are gearing up to show off their new campaigns. While Pepsi and Focus on the Family might be getting the most pre-game buzz for their advertising strategies (or lack thereof), plenty of other ...

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